Grading Rubric in New Quizzes

[benjamin_rodrig]

Hi All,

I noticed that we can add a rubric to New Quizzes and set it up for assignment grading. 

I'm having trouble understanding the rubric's role in the context of New Quizzes. Because, while it can be used to grade the assignment as a whole, it's grade can be overridden by manually grading questions and vice versa.

If someone can help me to better understand why it's there and what purpose it serves like by providing a possible use case - it would be greatly appreciated! Right now, I'm just a bit confused by it's presence. 

I hope my question makes sense!

Best regards,

Ben

[themidiman]

I never understood the purpose of rubrics in classic quizzes either. It makes sense for scoring individual questions (such as essay type questions), but not for the whole quiz assignment itself. 

I would put this in the category of making sure new quizzes has feature parity with classic quizzes.

At the same time, anyone who uses rubrics on a quiz assignment, I would be enlightened to know why you like that feature and what use it has.

[MARISSASCHRADER]

@themidiman The purpose of using rubrics in my district is for standards-based grading. The final quiz score (classic or new) would be converted into a 1-4 score to be reported based on the standards/outcomes being assessed. This is especially helpful if the learning mastery gradebook is being used. In our standards-based courses, all scores must in the 1-4 scale. I hope this helps clarify.

[Ron_Bowman]

@MARISSASCHRADER 

I am with @themidiman about why use rubrics.

Your answer makes some sense to me.  So what you are saying is that the student takes a 20 point quiz and gets an 18 out of 20 or 90%.  Then you look at the grade and use a rubric to select a value of 4,3,2,1 or 0 based on the students score?  

Just out of curiosity - then what score is reported in Canvas for the Student? do they get the 4,3,2,1,0 or do they get their actual grade?  

Thanks,

Ron

[MARISSASCHRADER]

@Ron_Bowman Yes, that is my understanding of how that works when a quiz is used. There is a certain standard assessed and the numeric score from the quiz is converted into the 1-4 score. Your example of 90% would fall into the numeric category of 4. There is a percentage/score cut off for each number 1-4. 

Students can see their actual score when they look at the quiz, but the rubric score is what is reported in the gradebook and what shows up on their grade summary. 

[benjamin_rodrig]

Hi @MARISSASCHRADER!, 

That does help a bit. What I'm wondering if you're using the "+Rubric" function that's on the New Quizzes Assignment details page, or if you're aligning Outcomes to the New Quiz on the "Build" page to get the student's outcomes there in the Learning Mastery Gradebook. The former is the one that I was asking about in the original question, so just wanted to clarify.

Thanks! 

[MARISSASCHRADER]

@benjamin_rodrig Yes, I am referring to the +Rubric and using a Canvas created rubric. Instructors have assigned outcomes to specific questions in other New Quizzes, but mostly there is a rubric attached to the New Quiz.

[benjamin_rodrig]

@MARISSASCHRADER! I have a better understanding of how you're use it. It makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

[themidiman]

@MARISSASCHRADER , that makes sense. Coming from higher ed, we don't use standards as much for assessment. 

Thanks for explaining it. 

[baldwinsh]

I would think that the best place to use a rubric would be a quiz that uses essay questions. My question for the developers is, could you use a rubric only for the parts of the quiz that is essay but not the other sections? This would give visibility to students on how they were scored on portions of an exam that might feel subjective to students so that they could clearly see areas that need improvement.

[SK15]

The use of the rubric in a quiz is only effective if you have one of the following scenarios (what we found here at our school)

Scenario 1-the quiz is completely essay based and builds on concepts. For example: If you were designed a building for an industrial use in a potentially wet and storm ridden area, such as the east coast, what would be the best engineering design to prevent catastrophic damage during intense periods. Please describe the following in each question:

• Foundation options that will withstand high moisture
• Structural materials that will withstand high temperature
• ...

Scenario 2- If the answer is strictly and essay response to a question in which certain key items must be met in order to receive points (similar to the use of a rubric for an assignment or term paper)

Outside of these and incredibly similar scenarios, there would be almost no need for a rubric in a quiz setting, since almost every other question type is a objective versus subjecting in response.